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Le Thi Thu
Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesperson
“Vietnam has full legal basis and historical evidence to assert its sovereignty towards the Paracel and Spratly islands in accordance with international law.”
Read more...Historical find, while not a "smoking gun," could serve to bolster Vietnam's sovereignty claim over the island chain. -
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Sergey Naryshkin
Director, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service
“You know that the Russian state is making attempts to create an international information security system on various international platforms.”
Read more...Lest we forget, Russia has a decades-long history of cyberattacks against foreign targets. -
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Zhao Lijian
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman
“It is widely believed by the international community that their cooperation poses a serious risk of nuclear proliferation and violates the spirit of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).”
Read more...To be sure, the U.S.-made subs will be nuclear-powered. Whether that violates treaty obligations is a matter of legal debate. -
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Press Service of Vadim Krasnoselsky
Official press service for the leader of the unrecognized state of 'Transnistria'
"The positive role of the peacekeeping operation on the Dniester was emphasized … until the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic and the Republic of Moldova finally settle their relations."
Read more...A large portion of the Russian troops in Transnistria are not serving as peacekeepers. -
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan
President of Turkey
“As a result of our efforts and at the expense of our martyrs, we were able to ensure the voluntary return of 462,000 Syrians to the areas where we provided security.”
Read more...Erdogan is using demographic engineering to ensure security in northern Syria. -
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Wang Wenbin
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson
“An investigation into Baric's team and lab is all it takes to clarify whether coronavirus research can create or has created novel coronavirus.”
Read more...China has cherry-picked and misrepresented facts to falsely suggest that a U.S. scientist may have engineered the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. -
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Harry Roque
Philippines presidential spokesperson
“I investigated the Davao Death Squad. I concluded that while the Davao Death Squad does exist, there is no evidence linking the President to the Davao Death Squad.”
Read more...The International Criminal Court is investigating because the Philippine president embraced extrajudicial justice. -
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Dmitry Peskov
Russian presidential spokesman
“The competitiveness, openness, and honesty of the elections were and are the most important thing for the president.”
Read more...Independent monitors judged Russia’s Duma elections unfair, and the government forced Google and Apple to drop an opposition party voting tool from app stores. -
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Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
President of Egypt
“The Egyptian state confirms its commitment to respect the right of physical safety, personal freedom, political practice, freedom of expression, forming civil societies and the right of litigation. Egypt has always welcomed diversity of opinions.”
Read more...Egypt’s record is replete with instances of forced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, torture, arbitrary arrest and religious discrimination. -
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Dmitry Peskov
Spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin
“We are in contact — including through the military — with many countries, including [on] the African continent… [t]here are no representatives of the Russian armed forces [in Mali].”
Read more...Russia’s Wagner Group of mercenary soldiers has long-established ties to the Russian military and is essentially a proxy. -
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Leung Chun-ying
Former Chief Executive of Hong Kong
“All countries in the world require people who form their political class, the ruling echelon, to be patriots.”
Read more...Loyalty to a ruling party and a top-down system to vet the “patriotic” bona fides of legislative candidates are not a feature of -
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Kais Saied
President of Tunisia
“They are talking about a coup and trespassing the constitution, but we, contrary to what they say, respect the law.”
Read more...Tunisia’s president shut down the country’s parliament on disputed grounds and has aggressively moved to suppress dissent.
